The Outdoor Report is an outdoor news site sporting high quality video reports and hunting/fishing news. This web site was built from the ground-up using the Drupal platform. We’ve worked extensively with the client to build a polish look that fits their vision. The website sports a custom video system to quickly and easily add video reports. It also contains automatic thumbnailing, along with enhanced jquery browsing to filter the reports based on various criteria. You can visit the site first hand. Check out The Outdoor Report.

Portfolio Highlights:

• Logo/Identity design.
• Customly created theme, built from the ground-up.
• Customized video content system. Allows for embedding videos from 3rd party providers.
• Automatic thumbnail generation. Various sizes and proportions created, even from outside video providers.
• Customized jQuery browsing interface. Allows for users to narrow down reports based on various criteria relevant to the type of report.
• Image gallery system, which allows for users to upload files. Images are displayed in a lightbox gallery effect.
• Streamlined report creation and registration system. Allows for better usability and minimizes the hassle of user registration.
• Multi-level CAPTCHA to reduce spam.
• Drupal-based content management.

The Bayfront Reggae & World Music Festival is an established music festival and needed their marketing identity to look so. We have been proud to assist them in achieving this goal through creation of print media designs and a logo.

Portfolio Highlights:

• Logo/Identity design.
• Print media designs – posters, flyers, and advertisements.
• Business card design.
• Festival T-shirt design.

Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture is an architectural firm based in New York City that specializes in digital architectural design. With an already created Drupal-based website, they were looking for functionality enhancements, optimization, and SEO consultation, which we were able to happily provide.

Portfolio Highlights:

• Deep Water Creative provides Drupal support and customized functionality to JPDA’s already established website.
• Custom coding on a complex set of Drupal integrated modules.
• JQuery UI enhancements.
• Private file system for clients.
• Server upgrade and migration.
• Website optimization and server support.

ESFIWorld.com is a website devoted to the booming E-sports industry. They not only track competitive players, but also the events they go to, providing coverage from the event as it happens. As their own fan base has grown they’ve needed their website to grow with them. That’s where we came in.

Portfolio Highlights:

• Deep Water Creative provides Drupal support and customized functionality to ESFI’s already established website.
• Custom coding on a complex set of Drupal integrated modules.
• RSS feed integration support.
• Created custom functionality for covered events.
• Website optimization and server support.

Click to visit PulseNote.com

PulseNote is a project management website that we’ve created to communicate with our clients. We’ve decided that it was such a nice tool, we’ve released it onto the internet as a free service. It allows managing of projects through items such as Tasks, Milestones, etc. PulseNote is flexible enough to be used for a variety of projects, not just website design.

Project Highlights:

• A high amount of Drupal customization, including programming of new modules and altering existing ones
• Project updater (Project Pulse) that updates automatically without page reloads
• Advanced user system – allows project privacy
• Advanced notification system to receive project updates offsite
• A unique and completely custom theme for sharp looks and user-friendly interface

Feel free to take a look or even use PulseNote for your own projects: PulseNote.com Project Management

Click to visit Fish-Identification.net

Dave Bosanko, author of several fish identification field guides, needed simple website. The primary goal is to introduce himself as an author, and the secondary goal is to promote his fish field guides.

Client: ARSENAL, a Duluth duo that composes and performs electronic music.

We were excited when ARSENAL approached us to brand them, because this was a rare opportunity to visually interpret their music. The process for developing the logo was very straight forward. We needed to convey the intensity of their music as well as relate the imagery to their name. We felt a handgun was a natural, abeit risky choice. They loved it, and so did their fans.

When it came to the cover of their first EP, Insects, we went about it in a much more traditional manner. Several mock-ups were developed and presented, reviewed, revised, and presented again. We’re very proud of the final project which highlights photography by Łukasz Góralczyk.

ARSENAL has been kind enough to allow us to share some of their music here.

Cockroach by Arsenal - Listen to the complete Insects EP at soundcloud.com

Click to visit CharterLakeSuperior.com

CharterLakeSuperior.com is the first of several planned regional economy boosting sites by Deep Water Creative. Part of our mission as Duluth residents is to provide resources that drive growth to our area. With CharterLakeSuperior.com we focus on building a resource for area charter fishermen and sailors. Visit today, and book a fishing trip to remember!